Quotes About Opportunity

There's another familiar adage: "Every dog has his day." Well, Joe and most dogs I've known have not only their day but most of mine and parts of other people's, too. When the day isn't theirs, you'd better get them to the vet's. They're sick. So

Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune permits you.

Each man has his day, and the time of life is brief for all, and never comes again.

Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.

Whatever hour you woke there was a door shutting.

Intellectual freedom depends upon material things. (...) Women have had less intellectual freedom than the sons of Athenian slaves. Women, then, have not had a dog's chance of writing poetry. That is why I have laid so much stress on money and a room of one's own

Literature is impoverished beyond our counting by the doors that have been shut upon women

To leave a door shut that might be open is in my eyes some form of blasphemy.

how to see the truth is our great chance in this world.

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How many men in a thousand million, he asked himself, reach Z after all?

Y denota estrechez de miras por parte de sus semejantes más privilegiados el decir que deberían limitarse a hacer postres y hacer calcetines, a tocar el piano y bordar bolsos. Es necio condenarlas o burlarse de ellas cuando tratan de hacer algo más o aprender más cosas de las que la costumbre ha declarado necesarias para su sexo.

It passed through his mind that if he missed this chance of talking to Katharine, he would have to face an enraged ghost, when he was alone in his room again, demanding an explanation of his cowardly indecision. It was better, on the whole, to risk present discomfiture than to waste an evening bandying excuses and constructing impossible scenes with this uncompromising section of himself.

we may prate of democracy, but actually, a poor child in England has little more hope than had the son of an Athenian slave to be emancipated into that intellectual freedom of which great writings are born.

We don't know how long you have, but the longer you're in the game, the more you risk fatal overload.

Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass, but learning to dance in the rain.

Commonsense has trampled down many a gentle genius whose eyes had delighted in a too early moonbeam of some too early truth; commonsense has back-kicked dirt at the loveliest of queer paintings because a blue tree seemed madness to its well-meaning hoof; commonsense has prompted ugly but strong nations to crush their fair but frail neighbors the moment a gap in history offered a chance that it would have been ridiculous not to exploit.

No man can bring about the perfect murder; chance, however, can do it

there's no unemployment in the workplace of God. And no discrimination of any kind. You say yes to Him, He'll use you. You say no, and He'll find somebody else to do it—after giving you a jillion chances to say yes. He's persistent. And patient.

Technology is not a defining feature. You can create blue oceans with or without it.

there is no such thing as a riskless strategy Strategy will always involve both opportunity and risk

blue ocean strategy is a theory of market creation

In blue oceans, competition is irrelevant because the rules of the game are waiting to be set.

luck, of course, will always play a role, as it does with all strategies